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Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada Caucuses, Results Are Still Out for Second Place: Live Updates
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont won the Nevada caucuses. Here is a look at the race after Nevada and what it means for the campaigns going forward.
Both former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., said they were closing in on second place in Nevada. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts finished outside the top tier, according to early results. The hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota were well behind.
The candidates are crisscrossing the country today as they divide their time between South Carolina, whose primary is in one week, and the Super Tuesday states ahead of March 3.
RESULTS FROM THE NEVADA CAUCUSES
Nevada Results | Updates From Reporters | Precinct Map | Delegate Count
The first national debate-qualifying poll since last week’s debate is out, and it showed Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gaining a few points.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has led every debate-qualifying poll released this month, remained at the top of the new CBS News survey at 28 percent.
But Ms. Warren is in second at 19 percent — up from her results earlier this month, which ranged from 11 to 14.
The poll showed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. close behind at 17 percent, which is roughly where he has been all month.
Trailing Mr. Biden is former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York at 13 percent and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., at 10 percent. The margin of error is plus or minus 1.7 percentage points.
The decisive win by Senator Bernie Sanders in Nevada may have turned him into the favorite for the Democratic nomination, but it has also peeled back a divisiveness in the Democratic ranks, not just by the familiar “Bernie Bros” online, but also by some party leaders.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York criticized Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., on Saturday night as the results came in. He wrote on Twitter:
Among the replies to Mr. de Blasio, who endorsed Mr. Sanders after his own presidential campaign fizzled last year, were some prominent Democratic figures.
Joe Lockhart, who served as the White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, replied, “Who cares what you think,’’ and Ben LaBolt, a former aide to President Barack Obama, replied, “You got your ass kicked by the Mayor of South Bend, boss.’’
Mr. de Blasio wasn’t the only one with rancid words. A tweet from the account of a Buttigieg supporter in West Virginia, Steve McElroy, the former executive director of the state Democratic Party, took a shot at Mr. Sanders’s national co-chair, Nina Turner.
The since-deleted tweet said:
“As a “alleged” leader, if @BernieSanders doesn’t show any leadership by muzzling @ninaturner he is going to make it hard for many to support him.”
On Sunday morning, Mr. McElroy offered an apology to Ms. Turner and claimed his account had been hacked.
The anger among supporters of the Democratic candidates has bubbled beneath the surface for months.
The debate last week in Las Vegas, where candidates themselves let loose on one another in unusually personal terms, seems to have given permission to supporters to do the same. It suggests an unusually nasty road ahead as Mr. Sanders seeks to consolidate support in a party whose moderates have deep misgivings about his ability to win in November and fear down-ballot losses.
In an interview on the CBS program “Face the Nation” on Sunday, a somewhat testy Joseph R. Biden Jr. refused to engage in a discussion about how well he would need to do in South Carolina.
“You guys can do all the pontificating about what it means,” Mr. Biden, the former vice president, said after he had predicted he would “do well” in South Carolina and the program’s moderator, Margaret Brennan, asked what “do well” meant.
“My job is to go in and make the best case I can, and I think we’re going to do well, and I think we’re going to go on to Super Tuesday and do very well,” Mr. Biden said.
He finished fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, and he is a distant second in Nevada with 60 percent of precincts reporting. His campaign’s central argument in response to his poor early performances has been that he will win South Carolina, where black voters are the largest Democratic bloc.
But a CBS News poll released Sunday showed Mr. Biden’s support among black voters falling in the state; he is still in the lead, but by a much smaller margin. In the “Face the Nation” interview, Mr. Biden pointed to the million of dollars in spending by the hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer as a reason for the shift.
“I think a lot is happening in terms of the amount of money being spent by the billionaires to try to cut into the African-American vote,” Mr. Biden said.
When pressed about whether South Carolina has long been his “firewall,” Mr. Biden said only the news media, not him, had called it that. This seemed more a semantic dispute — over the specific word “firewall” — than a substantive one, because Mr. Biden’s campaign has said repeatedly that he is banking on victory in the state and that he must, and will, win South Carolina.
Asked whether he believed he could stop the momentum of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Mr. Biden said, “I told you, I’m not going to play this game with you.”
“It’s not about who I stop,” he said. “It’s why I’m running, why I’m telling the people that I should be the next president and why I’m the best guy to beat Trump. All those other polls you all cite also show I’m the person most likely to beat Trump.”
All eyes were focused on the Democrats on Saturday in Nevada, while Republicans in the state quietly went about the business of reaffirming their support for President Trump.
Nevada Republicans were among a handful of state party leaders around the country to cancel their nominating conventions. Instead, members of the state party’s central committee gathered in Pahrump, Nev., west of Las Vegas, and voted to bind their delegates to Mr. Trump.
According to local news media reports, the vote was met with a standing ovation and chants of “Trump” and “Keep America Great.”
After the vote, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said that the party was united. “There are not factions anymore,” he told the crowd according to local reports. “This is the party of Trump.”
The CBS News poll released Sunday morning gave the hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer the lift he needed to qualify for this week’s Democratic debate after missing last week’s.
Mr. Steyer was at 18 percent in the CBS poll. To qualify for the debate, he needed to reach at least 12 percent in two South Carolina polls, and the CBS one was his second. The first was a Winthrop University poll that showed him at 15 percent.
Mr. Steyer’s qualification means that Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii will be the only candidate not on the debate stage on Tuesday.
The hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer sought on Sunday to play down his distant finish in Nevada, where he had expected to do much better. He did acknowledge that if he did not finish in the top three in South Carolina, he probably wouldn’t have a path forward.
Mr. Steyer said on “Fox News Sunday” that black voters would support him in South Carolina, whose primary is Saturday.
“I have done best with black people,” he said. “I have done best with Latinos. I think that when we get to the diverse Democratic electorate, when we get to the diversity that is America and the Democratic Party, I do a lot better.”
He did not mention that Latinos are a powerful voting bloc in Nevada — where he is in a distant sixth place with 60 percent of precincts reporting. Mr. Steyer had predicted a strong performance in Nevada based on the same argument he is using to predict a strong performance in South Carolina.
A CBS News poll released Sunday morning showed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. holding on a narrow lead in South Carolina after months in which he led by double digits.
The poll showed Mr. Biden with the support of 28 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont with 23 percent. Mr. Biden’s lead is within the margin of error, which is plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.
The former hedge fund executive Tom Steyer is third with 18 percent, followed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 12 percent, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., with 10 percent and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota with 4 percent.
For Mr. Biden, South Carolina could determine the course of his campaign. A central premise of his candidacy is that he is best equipped to win black voters, and he has used his predicted strength in South Carolina to counter the narrative created by his distant finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The poll showed that Mr. Biden’s strength among black voters had eroded, dropping 19 percentage points in the past three months. At the same time, Mr. Steyer’s strength among black voters has risen sharply.
President Trump will hold a rally in North Charleston, S.C., on Friday, continuing his practice of showing up wherever the Democrats are competing.
He held similar rallies in Des Moines the week before the Iowa caucuses, in Manchester the day before the New Hampshire primary and in Las Vegas the day before the Nevada caucuses.
Throughout the Democratic primary, Mr. Trump has tried to insert himself whenever possible — mocking some candidates, seemingly trying to elevate others and occasionally doing both at the same time.
Last night, he called Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont “Crazy Bernie” and then, in the same tweet, congratulated him on his win in Nevada. “Don’t let them take it away from you,” he tweeted, implying that the Democratic National Committee might try to do so.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday as he left for India, Mr. Trump again congratulated Mr. Sanders on “a great win.”
“Bernie is looking more and more like he’ll be the nominee unless they cheat him out of it,” Mr. Trump said. “A lot of people thought he was going to be nominee last time but it didn’t work out. I think they’re watching it very closely.”
The powerful South Carolina Democrat, Representative James E. Clyburn, said on Sunday that he would endorse a candidate for president after the Democratic debate on Tuesday.
“On Wednesday morning, I will let my choice be known,” Mr. Clyburn, the House majority whip, said on the ABC program “This Week.” “I’ve been asked about it by too many people, and I think it would be dishonorable not to tell people exactly what I feel.”
Mr. Clyburn said on the NBC program “Meet the Press” that he would “accept the fact” that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was the current front-runner in the race, but warned that Mr. Sanders could hurt more moderate members of the Democratic House majority in the coming election.
“South Carolinians are pretty leery about that title — socialist,” Mr. Clyburn said. “I do believe it will be an extra burden for us to have to carry.”
The Vermont senator defeated his opponents by a large margin, showing strength with minority and working class voters. Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg vowed to fight on.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was “still confident” that he would win the South Carolina primary, he said on Sunday morning on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”
Mr. Biden has staked his campaign on victory in South Carolina, whose primary is next Saturday and will be the first opportunity for large numbers of black voters to weigh in. His argument for his ability to win the nomination after poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire has been that he has much stronger support among minority voters in states like South Carolina.
Mr. Biden is in second place in Nevada with 60 percent of precincts reporting, but he is far behind the winner, Bernie Sanders.
Margaret Brennan, the host of “Face the Nation,” asked Mr. Biden whether that result — in a state with a large Latino population — punctured his electability argument. He responded that exit polls in Nevada showed him winning black voters by a large margin.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — By Sunday morning, the focus of the Democratic presidential race had shifted from the Nevada caucuses to the 72 hours that will determine the future of most of the candidates: the South Carolina primary next Saturday and the collection of Super Tuesday states that vote shortly after.
Here, in one of South Carolina's most populous cities, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to attend a church service, while former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind. will also join a congregation.
The two candidates are in radically different positions in the state, even as they both placed far behind Mr. Sanders in Nevada. Mr. Biden remains favored to win South Carolina, on the back of his fading but durable strength with black voters, who make up more than 60 percent of the state's Democratic electorate. Mr. Buttigieg, who performed well in Iowa and New Hampshire, remains stymied among nonwhite Democrats, and is polling near single digits.
Other candidates are scheduled to use Sunday to campaign in states that vote on Super Tuesday, where a massive amount of delegates will be awarded in one day. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was campaigning in Colorado. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the consensus front-runner after a dominant showing in Nevada, was scheduled to rally in Texas — another state where his appeal to Latino voters could pay massive dividends.
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